Obituaries

About the Database of Obituaries

This database lists obituaries of Fellows, Associates and Honorary Members of the RAS from the 1820s onwards. The obituaries were published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Memoirs of the RAS, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society (QJRAS) and Astronomy and Geophysics (A&G). Links to obituaries published elsewhere are also provided where possible (for an explanatory list of abbreviated journal titles, see here). This listing of the historical membership of the Royal Astronomical Society was originally compiled by Anthony J. Kinder, and digitised in 2008 by Ian Ridpath.

This resource has made use of the Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

NameBornDiedElectedMembership status
John MerrifieldFellow
Henry EichbaumFellow
Rev. John BoneFellow
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
Lord Archibald Campbell Campbell (Blythswood)Fellow
Simon NewcombAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Crawford Muir FlemingFellow
George Granado Graham Foster PigottFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
George KnottFellow
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Rev. Septimus BussFellow
George Stickland CriswickFellow
Alexander Stewart HerschelFellow
Robert Bellamy CliftonFellow
Charles Henry GattyFellow
Henry Chamberlain RussellFellow
Rev. Walter BriscombeFellow
Edward Ernest BowenFellow
Arthur CottamFellow
Sir Joseph Norman LockyerFellow
Peter ThompsonFellow
George Parker BidderFellow
John Henry BrownFellow
Arthur Williams WrightFellow
George Washington HoughAssociate
Rev. Edward Aurelius AdamsFellow
Sherburne Wesley BurnhamFellow, later Associate
George BrufordFellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Richard Anthony ProctorFellow
Edmund WeissAssociate
Ralph CopelandFellow
Rev. Walter SidgreavesFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
Col. John HerschelFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
Joseph GledhillFellow
Edward GayFellow
Rev. Alexander FreemanFellow
Sir John Benjamin StoneFellow
George William HillAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Henry PrattFellow
George Mitchell SeabrokeFellow
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
M-Gen. Henry Spencer PalmerFellow
Charles Hartwell Horne CheyneFellow
William EssonFellow
James LeighFellow
John GriggFellow
Ole Theodor OlsenFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Horace PearceFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
William Henry MawFellow
William Steadman AldisFellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
James CookFellow
Benjamin GregoryFellow
Harry Samuel WilliamsFellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow
Richard JohnsonFellow
Richard InwardsFellow
James GillFellow
Thomas Dalby BrewinFellow
Sir Robert Stawell BallFellow
Col. Alexander Burton-BrownFellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
Baron Henry Pirbright (de Worms)Fellow
Charles George TalmageFellow
Earl Laurence Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Earl Laurence Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
William Irving PageFellow
Louis Stromeyer LittleFellow
Christopher ThwaitesFellow
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Lieut. John East Hunter PeytonFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
Robert Holford Macdowall BosanquetFellow
Andrew Ainslie CommonFellow
Beauchamp Prideaux SelbyFellow
George Frederick ChambersFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Jonadab McCarthyFellow